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Hi! My sister's (Dixiegrrl) told me about you...all good.

I wanted to address your tagline re: illegal to starve a dog but not a human. It's interesting you put it that way, as it's been said in history that the first case of child abuse was handled by the ASPCA. It was not okay to abuse a dog but it was a "personal decision" to abuse a child? So from the way I see it, it's been seen the way you put it for a long time. Starving, beating, hurting an animal is illegal and attracts people like PETA, ASPCA, etc. but if you starve a person in hospice or a disabled person, it can be considered euthanasia, death with dignity, "what she really wants". The last one gets me pissed more than anything because, well, do you know how many rapists justify their actions saying, "It's what she really wanted". And that is what MS (which to me stands for Monsieur Sh!%head) is saying about justifying attempted murder of his wife: She wouldn't want to live with this way, it's for her own good.

BTW, since in the evolutionary sense we would be considered animals, why *wouldn't* PETA step up on this? LOL Oh yeah, forgot who I was talking about. Darn us and our common sense!

My mom was in hospice for just a few days before she died. Covenant Hospice thankfully, was wonderful up here in NW Florida and made it possible for my mom to come home 2 days before my wedding so I could get married at my home instead of in a hospital. We had to readmit her the day of the wedding because she verbalized her desire to go back. She died 6 days later. Between this and my new pregnancy, human life is extremely sacred and I try to protect it at all costs. If some of these people can't see that Terri is ALIVE and can thrive with the right help, they are myopic to an alarming degree.

Thankfully I do live in Florida, the nice, relatively normal northwest part, so I will have my say on this come voting day as well. I have signed petitions, emails, as much as I could do in the past week (okay, not as long as some of you but give me a break...my dear sweet baby has decided on an in utero career as "food critic" and nothing I eat is liked.) Oh, and when voting day does come, keep in mind that I will be only voting once, even though if I wanted to be a PITA I *could* argue that I am voting for two as well. =o)